Philosophy

　To create world-class scientific technology, contribute more to the local community, and cultivate human resources who possess rich creative minds, social natures, and human natures through high-quality and distinctive research.

Goals

Educational Goals

We will cultivate human resources who possess high levels of motivation for learning and thinking power to independently explore issues, well-established basic academic skills that meet international standards, and advanced technical knowledge as well as a rich sense of humanity and high ethical standards.

The Department of Innovative Engineering will cultivate "human resources who will master engineering and understand the field of science." The Department of Integrated Science and Technology will foster "human resources who will master science and understand the field of engineering."

Research Goals

We will promote innovative research that will lead to the next-generation of advanced technology by exploring complicated issues in the local and international communities that are related to interdisciplinary fields based in the material, environmental, and informational sciences.

Goals for the Contribution to Society

We will strive to address problems such as welfare and environment for which contemporary society has sought solutions, create a new industry through collaboration with the local community, and contribute to developing a vibrant and pleasant local community.

Administrative Goals

To smoothly promote challenges and accurately respond to the social responsibilities given to this faculty, we will aggregate flexible will and build an operating system, while promoting self-examination and evaluation as well as external evaluation.

Issues and Policies

Building on our history of results, our faculty responds to the creation of innovation that will meet the local community's expectations. Based on a collaboration between industry, academia, and the local community, we aim for new technology development that will lead the world. We also strive to create technology and an industry that will contribute to the development of the local community from a global perspective . Therefore, we will cultivate human resources knowledgeable in science and technology who have both the professional perspective in the specific field and the overall vision to collectively capture related fields. These individuals will possess the abilities to find and solve issues independently and to promote research that will create the innovation needed to build a sustainable society.

Educational Issues and Policies

Department of Innovative Engineering

We will cultivate human resources who can respond to the following:

1. Ability to organize/analyze problems for complex challenges and respond based on knowledge that fuses engineering and science
2. Ability to actively engage in highly creative manufacturing by modeling the engineering field based on mathematics and physics and utilizing simulation technology
3. Ability to respond to the fields of energy/environmental science, medical engineering/welfare engineering, and disaster prevention/disaster reduction, and respond to local innovation concepts and social needs

Department of Integrated Science and Technology

We will cultivate human resources who can respond to the following:

1. Ability to organize/analyze problems from a multifaceted perspective that integrates science and engineering and resolve issues while emphasizing security and safety
2. Ability to create new applied skills through dialogue and cooperation (co-creation of science and engineering) based on scientific technology
3. Ability to work on issues ranging from the local community to the world, including mathematical science, informatics, material science, food science, based on knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and geoscience that form the basis of science and engineering

Research Issues and Policies

1. Promotion of creative and distinctive research work

We will form cross-departmental research groups and unite departments as one for the research issues with strong social demand and distinctive research issues that will lead to the next-generation frontier.

2. Cultivation of young researchers and creation of the new technology/new industries

We will foster a number of young researchers who are rich in entrepreneurial spirit and will lead to the creation of new technology/new industries by establishing project research.

3. Securing of exceptional researchers

We will extensively seek exceptional researchers through open recruitment and aim to improve our research level. In conjunction with this, we will solidify research evaluations.

4. Transmission of the research outcomes to the world

We will communicate our faculty's distinctive research outcomes to the world through various media and demonstrate our faculty's presence.

Issues and Policies for the Contribution to Society

1. Creation of new technology by collaborating with society

We will aim to solve urgent issues as typified by welfare and the environment through a collaboration with the industrial world, in particular, the industries located in the local community and municipality. Together we will jointly create new technologies/new industries that will unlock the next generation of technology.

2. Cultivation of human resources who will influence the local community

We will cultivate human resources who will influence the local community through reciprocal learning such as internships and refresher education. We will also support the promotion of our graduates' employment in the local community.

3. Provision of a place for lifelong learning for the local community

We will actively convey the dream and appeal of scientific technology and its great possibilities to the local community and young people through international exchanges, in-university open events, and organized lectures.

4. Activities to aim for symbiosis with local people

We will cooperate in promoting and creating local culture or creating comfortable dwelling environments through student and faculty volunteer activities or the provision of teachers' collective expertise.